Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The United Nations food relief agency has urged Governments in West Africa to spend more money on school meal programmes as these investments not only contribute to children’s better future but also create local jobs around agriculture.
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Paris, France (PANA) - Updated data reveals that some 263 million – one-in-five – children, adolescents and youth worldwide are out school, a figure that has barely changed over the past five years, according to a new United Nations cultural agency report.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – The US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, is due to embark on an expanded visit to Africa, focused on peace and security, trade and counter-terrorism, the U.S. State Department Spokesperson, Heather Nauert, said.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – The Kenyan Police are in pursuit of an Al Shabaab operative, named Jamaa Nuh Abdille, who led an attack at the Fino Police camp in Mandera Friday, killing five border patrol Police officers and disabling telecommunication connection in the North Eastern region, Police said.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, said on Friday that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) must run a leaner and smarter organisation by cutting costs and becoming more efficient to achieve the objectives of the sub-regional body.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Kenya’s health ministry Cabinet Secretary, Sicily Kariuki, said the chief executive officer of the state-run hospital would be forced to leave office until an investigation into the circumstances under which a patient was wrongfully subjected to a brain surgery is complete.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin, and the Service Chiefs with the Director General of the Department of State Service met in Maiduguri on Thursday and Friday to review the ongoing operations in the North East, particularly, the operation to get back the Dapchi girls.Full text...

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Six attackers were shot dead, while the Burkinabe army lost seven soldiers in Friday morning's attack by unknown gunmen in the capital of Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou, according to the government spokesman Remis Dandjounou.Full text...

﻿Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The West African Development Bank (WADB) will give Mali 5 billion CFAF for the Kabala potable water project in the Malian capital, following a financing convention signed Friday in Bamako by the Malian minister of Economy and Finances, Boubou Cissé, and the WADB governor, Christian Adovelande.
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Tensions between South Africa’s two largest opposition parties have reached boiling point with the Democratic Alliance (DA) confirming that it will be reporting the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema, to the Equality Court for hate speech and incitement of violence.
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Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian government on Friday announced that the ongoing search for the 110 girls, abducted from the Government Girls Science and Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, in Yobe State, Northeast Nigeria, has been extended to neighbouring countries.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Members of Ethiopia’s parliament on Friday approved the controversial state of emergency imposed by the council of ministers on 16 February, news portal Addis Standard reported, noting that the emergency decree will last for six months.Full text...

Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Foreign affairs and defence ministers from troop contributing countries (TCCs) of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have warned that gains made in the Horn of Africa country risk being eroded if outstanding issues such as inadequate troop numbers and unpredictable funding are not addressed.
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Mbarara, Uganda (PANA) - The Government of Uganda has launched the biometric refugee verification exercise in Oruchinga Refugee Settlement located in Mbarara District in the South-West of Uganda.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A patient at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Kenya is recovering after wrongfully undergoing a brain surgery at the facility, the Hospital's Chief Executive Officer Lily Koros said on Thursday.
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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Africa’s vast Sahel – plagued by humanitarian crises, armed conflict and terrorism – is now witnessing improvements in its criminal justice system thanks to a special programme by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which assists governments in the region to come together to fight corruption, and human and drug trafficking.
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